Korg - nanoPAD2 - Slimline USB MIDI 16-Pad Controller - Black

Needed to get more pads for my rig but without breaking the bank. Was a bit nervous considering the price when you compare to more premium controllers.The Nanopad is responsive and has a fantastic feel for legato sections, I absolutely love it for mapping melodic lines especially for stringed instruments. The push depth is shorter than some pads I've used. Still very usable for beat making, but I particularly love this feel for melody and feel it gives me more control for this purpose.No velocity issues encountered!The XY Pad is a new feature for me, and it's super responsive too.Hooked up through Mainstage, assignment was intuitive and caused no problems.I would absolutely purchase again and would recommend if you need a quick and affordable addition to your rig.

Great introductory piece of kit for budding beat makers, comes with some starter software that's a bit of a pain to install but the device itself is almost plug + play. A slight delay with certain programs on pressing the keys, but with others it's great, you soon get used to the delay however so this is best used as either a practice tool or suffer through the mild frustration. However for the price it'd be hard to find something as well built.

My nanoPAD2 arrived this morning and I must admit I was intially caught out by the packaging. The USB lead is tucked neatly at one end under a cardboard flap so it appears the box is empty, hopefully that tip will save you a couple of minutes.Installation was swift, the drivers seemed to install well on Win7-64 even though the site suggests a fix would be needed for Win7 32/64. My tool of choice is Propellerheads Reason 6. Adding the nano2 to the Reason set up was simple and I was tapping away drums and messing about with synths in no time.The construction seems solid and the device itself is bigger than I expected which makes it very comfortable to play (for scale purposes the touchpad is similar in size to that of a notebook's). The 'Kaos' pad can be used in a number of modes which will be fun to play with even though I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet... The note-pads themselves have a decent - velocity sensitive - response and I had a lot of fun tapping out beats with it and I'm no drummer.One thing that seems to be a bit of a gripe is the apparant inability to change the octave of the pads themselves. While the touchpad is in 'touch scale mode' it is affected by octave shifts. This may be a limitation of my understanding of how to use this but I thought it was worth mentioning as I didn't even think of this when I bought it. I is perhaps possible to do this within the Korg Kontrol Editor but my brief experience with this software wasn't plesant. I will endeavour to flesh this part of my review when I have more experience.All in all though my 4* is based on the fact that this seems a quality bit of hardware for a very reasonable price.

go buy along with a nanokontrol2 and i'd have this over a midifighter, easy to use and great sound to make with x y pad, good layout and everything is worth buyingbuy it!!

This product is not as simple as it is implied to be. You get about 1 hundredth of the instructions on paper, and another 1 hundredth when you've completed some downloads :S Odd system. You do get the software bundle still, oh and a discount voucher, in euros, for health ingredients delivered to your door, Korg stickers or probably anything else would've made more sense. Once you do some homework, if you're not familiar with midi mapping expect to do some and then some more, it does make life easier on the production front and I may think, only thinking, about getting the controlpad. Still, despite it's downfalls this product would've been rated higher, if it wasn't for the sheer mess on Amazon caused with this order, actually a few orders at the same time. Other than being furious though, I'm also baffled. Everything over Christmas came early for me, never mind on time; and I have never had a bad experience with Amazon in the past. Credit goes to the chat room staff, 3 times now they've come to the rescue and profusely apologised for someone elses blunder.

I use this as part of my lighting setup with an Avolites T2 with the USB MIDI Triggering.This works fantastically for firing playbacks. Super responsive and comfortably fires multiple playbacks quickly and with ease.The software is a little tricky to get everything right but it's easy enough.Windows loves to keep changing which driver it's going to use and then breaks my control a little bit so beware of windows doing this to you! This is not the fault of the device.

I bought it for my fiance's birthday and he seems really happy about it. I would say either nanopad2 is great or my other half doesn't want to hurt my feelings. anyway, I can highly recommend this item!

As usual with Amazon the item was delivered on time and in good condition. However, installing the thing was a nightmare!Despite what you may believe, things like this do not play nicely with unpowered USB hubs...if you can plug them directly into the computer. After two days of faffing on I eventually got it to work with Ableton Live 9, but even so once it is set up leave it alone of you can. Plugging and unplugging upsets it and requires much fiddling about and reboots (I'm using a Windows 8 laptop with a i7 processor and 16GB ram).One it's working it does what it's supposed to i.e. trigger samples. The touchpad is a nice addition but not of much use to me. It's also small enough to fit into your bag to take anywhere.Also note that this white version is cheaper than the black although they are otherwise identical.I have docked one star because of how difficult the installation was, and the lack of email support from Korg (still waiting after a week...though I figured it out myself).

Very useful for drums and bass

Lo utilizo para samplear baterías en Ezdrummer y Superior Drummer, me da justo lo que necesito, es sencillo, es económico y es 100% funcional, "toco" las baterías sobre la marcha sin tener que escribir a golpe de ratón en el secuenciador, por mi parte, 100% recomendado

La serie Nano della Korg è quanto di meglio si possa trovare, andando in ordine, per prezzo, efficacia, compattezza e versatilità.Per la versatilità, chiaramente, dovete essere anche voi un po' smanettoni... è un controller midi, non una lampada di Aladino ;-)Il Nano Pad 2 viene riconosciuto tranquillamente sia in ambito Windows che in quello Apple e, probabilmente, con un'interfaccia OTG, anche da tablet e cellulari (anche se ancora non ho provato).Nel mio caso lo uso con software per DJ, programmi di editing audio e video. Su alcuni (soprattutto quelli audio) la funzione Midi Learn aiuta a configurare i singoli pad con le funzioni che più interessano e che non sono quelle standard, per altri programmi, tipo Adobe Premiere e simili, lo uso per gestire delle macro che velocizzano il lavoro, tramite appositi software che si possono trovare googlando per convertire i comandi midi in comandi tastiera.La costruzione è pur vero che risulta un po' plasticosa (non dimenticate quel che costa, però), ma fa molto bene il suo dovere.Il cavetto, nel mio caso, risulta un po' corto ma qui su Amazon c'è l'imbarazzo della scelta e non è un problema prenderne uno che fa al caso vostro.Un buon acquisto a prescindere

MIDIメッセージ送信ができる打楽器系MIDIコントローラを探していて電子ドラムの購入を検討していたところ設置場所と費用について断然有利なこちらを見つけて購入しました。当初の目的だった、ベロシティに変化をつけた同音連打、打楽器的奏法の表現、がよい感じで実現できて満足しています。WindowsXPで動きSSW8.0VSで使うことができました。USB-MIDIケーブルを使わず、USB-miniUSBケーブルで認識してくれてます。使うまで、宅録用の「リズムマシン」のような使い心地を想像していましたがNANOPADは「MIDIコントローラ」であることもあってPCの処理能力によってはストロークヒットから発声までにいくらかのタイムラグがあったり、使う音によってはベロシティの変化を明瞭に感じにくかったり、自分の音を持つ楽器であるリズムマシンとは性質上の違いもあるようです。もっともこれらのことは処理速度が十分に速いパソコンなら気にはならないかもしれません。少し重量感のあるプラスチックのボディにやや埃がつきやすいゴムパッドとその他で構成されており使っていてうれしくなるような高級感こそありませんがコンパクト（大きなそろばん程度の大きさ）で特にドラム・パーカッションの打ち込みに役立つ優秀なMIDIコントローラだと思います。

Super produit et très bon rapport qualité prix. Je le branche directement sur mon iPad avec garage band et ça fonctionne nickel.